Mendalla
Great Google Doodle today
Posted on: 06/10/2013 12:23
Google's Doodle today is an animation in honour of Maurice Sendak's 85th birthday. If you hit the Play button above the picture of Max from Where the Wild Things Are it plays a revolving animation of scenes and characters from Sendak's books ending with them all having a birthday party for their creator. Say what you will about Google as a company, but the Doodles are a wonderful touch.
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gecko46
Posted on: 06/10/2013 14:16
Cute!
Arminius
Posted on: 06/10/2013 14:24
Hilarious!
Happy Birthday Maurice Sendak!
chemgal
Posted on: 06/10/2013 14:46
Thanks for sharing. I don't actually go to the google homepage very often, I just type in the search bar and miss them unless someone shares!
Pinga
Posted on: 06/16/2013 12:00
i loved it, too, mendella
Mendalla
Posted on: 06/16/2013 15:19
The father's day doodle today is another nice one.
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somegalfromcan
Posted on: 06/21/2013 02:24
Another good one for the first day of summer today.
Alex
Posted on: 06/21/2013 03:44
Love it
Happy Summer solstice evryone,
Pinga
Posted on: 06/21/2013 07:46
yup, i wish you could interact with it though
chemgal
Posted on: 06/21/2013 09:05
Seems a little insensitive, especially considering it's .ca and not .com. I'm sure that's not intentional though.
Hilary
Posted on: 06/21/2013 10:47
yea, the extra water in today's doodle isn't too funny here. I'm further south than most of the trouble, but we are potentially in a local state of emergency in Lethbridge as the Oldman River continues to swell.
Mendalla
Posted on: 06/22/2013 09:01
They are trying to show people doing what people do in the summer. Certainly my family spent plenty of time in the lake getting washed by waves. I quite appreciated and enjoyed it.
And .ca versus .com doesn't enter into it. This doodle came from Google US as most of them do (only Canada-specific ones like Canada Day would originate here) and is the work of an artist from The New Yorker. That suggests to me that it was commissioned long before the floods started in a country that may only be dimly aware of them.
Cite: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/21/todays-google-doodle-summer-solstice-by-christoph-niemann/
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chemgal
Posted on: 06/22/2013 11:51
I know quite a few people in Calgary who didn't realize it was for the first day of summer, they thought it was about the flood. At least they were able to laugh!
I had gone to google.com first, and it had no doodle, that's why I mentioned that.
Tabitha
Posted on: 06/22/2013 11:58
I too realized it was summer but thought it a bit insensitive with the flooding.
somegalfromcan
Posted on: 07/08/2013 22:53
Another good one today in honour of Roswell.
Mendalla
Posted on: 07/09/2013 18:50
I saw (and played) that one. For those who missed it, it was a picture of a cartoon alien in a flying saucer and when you clicked on it, it launched a game where you played a crashed alien looking for pieces of its saucer.
To see it: http://www.google.com/doodles/roswells-66th-anniversary
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somegalfromcan
Posted on: 12/13/2013 15:11
Today it's Emily Carr, who happens to be my favourite artist.
Pinga
Posted on: 12/13/2013 17:27
I love it as well, some gal
carolla
Posted on: 12/13/2013 18:29
Emily - a true hero!